Hello All, I discovered this site some time ago as a fledgling perl scripter and immediately tagged it as my favorite perl site! Now, I am advancing to the next stage of my perl career by posting my first question. I hope I am using this site correctly. I have been toiling over the following code: 
use Win32API::File 0.08 qw( :Func );
use Net::Ping;
if(  $#ARGV > 1  || ! $ARGV[0] )  {
          usage();
          exit 1;
}
$source = '\path\to\local\file(s)';
$destination = '\path\to\remote\host';
$hostname = $ARGV[0];
$p = Net::Ping->new("icmp");
if( $p->ping($hostname )) {
          print "\u$hostname is alive.\n";
          copy($source, $destination);
} else {
        print "\u$hostname is not reachable\n";
$p->close();
}

sub usage {
        print "Please enter either an IP address or a Hostname\n";
        print "Usage: Copied file/s to specified Hostname or IP addres
+s";
}

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My objective is to copy a file or files from my Win2k machine to one or more remote Win2k machines. I have been working with the Win32API::File module, but haven't been successful. It complains that it can't find the sub copy in my main package."Undefined subroutine &main::copy called at copynetcoolfiles.pl". Why is it only looking at my main symbol table when I have loaded the Win32API module? Could use some pointers. Thanks.

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